I'd never heard of hellburner ships, but I _have_ read C.J. Cherryh's novel Hellburner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_to_the_Belt https://en.wikipedia.org

I'd never heard of hellburner ships, but I _have_ read C.J. Cherryh's novel Hellburner (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_to_the_Belt https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devil_to_the_Belt). I wonder if that's where she got the name.